Thomas Wolf: Baseball in the Roaring Twenties

Cover: 9781496235787 | Baseball in the Roaring Twenties | Thomas Wolf | Buch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

Focusing on the extraordinary 1926 baseball season, Baseball in the Roaring Twenties shows how baseball was inextricably linked with Prohibition, the Jazz Age, and the rise of sports gambling during the twenties.

Über den Autor

Thomas Wolf is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Nebraska, 2020), finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, and coauthor, with Patricia Bryan, of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Roaring Twenties

Part 1. The Teams
1. A Dynasty Is Born
2. Miller Huggins
3. The Cardinals and Rogers Hornsby
4. Spring Training in Terrell Woods
5. Spring Training in St. Petersburg

Part 2. The Season
6. Opening Days
7. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb
8. Early Season Blues for the Redbirds
9. Grover Cleveland Alexander
10. Away from the Ballpark
11. Dutch Leonard Has a Story to Tell
12. Yankee Pitchers and Tony Lazzeri
13. Rube Foster and Black Baseball
14. Sesquicentennial Games
15. Judge Landis Takes Over
16. The Golden Age of Sports
17. Final Days

Part 3. The Postseason
18. World Series Games One and Two
19. World Series Games Three, Four, and Five
20. World Series Games Six and Seven
21. The Colored World Series of 1926
22. Judge Landis Steps Up to the Plate

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Importe , Sport
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Hobby & Freizeit
Thema:	Ballsport
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781496235787
ISBN-10:	1496235789
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wolf, Thomas
Hersteller:	Nebraska
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 161 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Wolf
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.2025
Gewicht:	0,549 kg